At the Relationship Therapy Center, our therapists are committed to helping you do relationships well. Our couples weekends are a retreat, an intensive, and couples therapy all wrapped up into one marathon event.

During these retreats, our goal is to facilitate breakthroughs in your relationship and provide you with the tools to build a healthy and lasting marriage. Since, evidence shows that intensives produce immediate results with fewer chances for relapse in the future, it is a great investment. We believe that relationship problems are natural, but how you handle them sets you apart.

What is a Couples Intensive?

To clarify, a couples intensive is the equivalent of six months of 50-minute therapy sessions wrapped up into one intensive weekend. It is a fast and efficient way of breaking through barriers, a chance to resolve lingering issues, and to learn healthy communication. Likewise, you will learn conflict resolution skills, build trust, connection, and intimacy in your relationship.

More than anything, a couples intensive is a chance for rapid healing. We get to the heart of the issues that cause problems in your marriage. Spending extended time together enables immediate results.

When is the Right Time?

Wondering if a marriage retreat is the right choice for you? Ask yourself if you are experiencing any of the following.

• In a relationship crisis?

• Are you in a rut and need a jumpstart in your marriage?

• Do you feel that somehow, somewhere, you and your partner have gotten off track and are no longer connected?

• Has there been a loss of intimacy in your relationship that you want back?

• Is the romance and sex all but gone?

• Experienced infidelity or betrayal of trust within the partnership?

• What about a sudden loss or upheaval in the family?

• You’re lost or uncertain and do not know what steps to take next?

Reasons you choose to attend a couples retreat are many and varied. The only criterion we have here at the Relationship Therapy Center is that both you and your partner are committed to the work.

A Marriage Intensive… What’s It Like ?

Couples retreats at the Relationship Therapy Center are private one-on-one weekends with a Gottman trained therapist. The Gottman Method Therapy is a science-based approach to couples counseling based on over thirty years of evidence-based research. Weekend intensives include three consecutive days and over fifteen hours of therapy personalized for your marriage.

Before the intensive begins, you will both complete an online assessment tool called the Gottman Relationship Checkup.

This assessment enables your therapist to conduct a scientific evaluation of your relationship. It includes 480 questions about everything from children and finances. Most importantly it looks at your intimacy, trust, and friendship and takes about 90 minutes to complete.

Sessions are as follows: three hours of therapy on Friday and two three-hour sessions on both Saturday and Sunday. Your therapist will also provide supplemental materials to be used at home. We have two-day and pre-marital couples intensives option available as well.

What Can You Expect?

By attending a Gottman Method couples retreat, you will have an opportunity to learn healthy communication skills. Learn to increase connection, intimacy and learn the value of admiration and appreciation. Subsequently, you learn to disarm the Four Horsemen, and deepen your levels of understanding for one another. 

RTC’s couples retreat is a chance to recommit to your love, your partner, and your marriage. These intensives help you heal by guiding you to recognize the underlying patterns that cause pain and misunderstanding in your relationship. You also learn how to reestablish safety with one another. A marriage intensive is a chance to understand yourself and your partner better. Similarily, you learn tools for connection and communication, and to leave with hope for a better future.

Who Will Benefit From a Couples Retreat?

Ideal candidates for couples retreats include couples:

• on the brink of divorce,
• busy and find it difficult to align their schedules each week for regular therapy sessions,
• looking to make a rapid change,
• those who live out of town,
• committed to the intensive nature of this process.

Want to join us for a couples intensive in the Sacramento area? Contact the Relationship Therapy Center in Sacramento today for more information.

Sign Up for a Couples Retreat in California or Marriage Intensive:

If you would like to join us for a couples retreat or marriage intensive, we would love to speak with you. Our highly trained Gottman couple’s therapists are ready to help you and your partner reconnect and sustain a happy relationship. Follow these steps to book a couples retreat in California:

1. Submit the above form to our relationship therapy clinic for a free 20-minute phone consultation to determine which retreat is a good fit for you and your partner,

2. Take the Gottman Relationship Check-Up Assessment

3. Meet with one of our relationship therapists for a couple’s retreat or marriage intensive and find happiness in your relationship.

Other Services offered at The Relationship Therapy Center in California:

In addition to couples retreats, Our Sacramento area counseling clinics located in Roseville and Fair Oaks, CA are pleased to offer a variety of mental health services. Our couples services include: Couples Counseling, Counseling after infidelity, sex therapy, co-parent counseling, family therapy, divorce counseling, intensive couples retreats, and premarital counseling. Our individual therapy services include anxiety treatment, therapy for children, teen therapy, depression treatment, codependency counseling and individual relationship counseling. Our therapists offer online counseling in California to treat a variety of mental health concerns. Please reach out to our Sacramento area therapy office to learn more about the many ways we can help you or your loved ones.